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[Rafa Grimán <rafagriman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

El Jueves, 23 de Noviembre de 2006 07:38, Wade Jones escribió:
> EVMS is necessary to create NSS (Netware filesystem) volumes.


Also have in mind (IIRC) EVMS is cluster aware and LVM isn't.

   Rafa


> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 21:02, Alexander Usov wrote:
>  Hi!
>
>  I am going to install a new development machine soon. Right now I am
> trying to plan it's configuration. The machine is going to have 3 hard
> discs (partially) joined
>  into one big soft-RAID5 volume for things like /home, /usr and virtual
>  machines and
>  with /boot & swap partitions on the remaining space.
>
>  One thing not clear to me is if EVMS is fully supported by openSUSE team.
>  In fact (probably due to the quality of their's manual) it is not
>  clear to me if it provides
>  any *real* advantages over the combination of MD-RAID/LVM2 (except
> somewhat more uniform management). I did some playing with it on the test
>  machine and found
>  it quite confusing (this is probably again due to the quality of their
>  manuals). Moreover
>  the complete installation (including boot/root partitions) on EVMS
>  does not seem to
>  work right, as it's presence is not autodetected by mkinitrd (it's
>  easy to force it manually,
>  but I don't want to keep track of it).
>
>  So the real question is approximately following: are there some
>  reasons to choose
>  EVMS except it's bad manual, terrible command-line interface and extra
>  installation
>  difficulties?
>
>  --
>  Best regards,
>    Alexander.

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